Just as Ma Xinyi said, as the festival approached, more and more village heads, gentry and clan leaders came to the Ma family more and more Xiaoyu and her aunt Ma Lan were busy receiving these people all day and discussing the process and details of the ceremony with them. So Yin Xiu could only be with Ma Xinyi, or rather, be entangled by her. They stayed at the entrance of the village all day, and rather than being sentinels, they were more like two idle people chatting under a big tree. Yin Xiu sat on the big tree stump at the door, while Ma Xinyi was a person who could not sit still, so she stood in front of Yin Xiu and walked around from time to time. "You are not a member of the Ma family, let alone a woman of the Ma family, so I cannot teach you my wonderful Ma family exorcism skills. This is inevitably a pity." Ma Xinyi sighed, patted Yin Xiu on the shoulder and comforted him, "But if you can't learn my magic, maybe you can learn my kung fu." "effort?" Yin Xiu clasped his fists and said, "May I ask how powerful you are, Senior Sister?" Ma Xinyi put her hands on her hips and said, "It's still a long way from being a master. Currently, it's only the third level of the entrance!!! That's all~" "I admire you."

Yin Xiu hugged her arms and said, "When I was your age, I didn't even know how to fight." "What about now?" Ma Xinyi asked him. "Now?" Yin Xiu scratched his head, "I still don't understand." "It's ok." Ma Xinyi sympathized and said, "I was born with a talent for something. Maybe you are not good at fighting, but in other aspects, you are a genius, right?" "For example?" Yin Xiu looked up and asked. "for example?" Ma Xinyi was quite distressed. For a long time she couldn't think of a single aspect of Yin Xiu's genius. After all, no matter how she looked at it, Yin Xiu was just an ordinary Taoist priest. Fortunately, someone finally came to the rescue. Outside the village boundary, there were two people, a man and a woman, both of whom looked to be locals of some age. They did not dare to cross the line, but respectfully asked Yin Xiu in stumbling Chinese: "Excuse me, Taoist priest, is the Heavenly Master here?" Before Yin Xiu could answer, Ma Xinyi got ahead of him and spoke first: "Why, do you want to talk to me?" "Are you a Taoist priest?" the woman asked in surprise. As soon as she asked this, the man pulled her sleeve. She realized that she had said something wrong and quickly shut up. Ma Xinyi didn't notice it, she just said calmly: "I'm not, but the Heavenly Master is very busy, you can talk to me if you have anything." The man secretly looked at Yin Xiu again, asking him questions with his eyes. However, Yoon Soo just smiled, neither confirming nor denying.

Unable to get an answer, the man could only try his luck. He whispered, "There is indeed something I need to ask the Heavenly Master, oh no, the Taoist Priest for help." "That's all you say." Ma Xinyi folded her hands, "Catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits is something I can do with ease." After she said this, the couple felt relieved. After looking at each other, the man said, "Master, my daughter has been possessed by evil spirits." "Bewitched?" Although this was not a good thing, Ma Xinyi couldn't help but feel excited at this time because this was exactly what she wanted. So she immediately asked, "Where do you live? Take me to see it." The two looked at each other again, "Then Taoist priest, why don't you prepare first?" "what to prepare?" Ma Xinyi glanced at them and said, "I'm ready, just lead the way." So the couple led the way and led them to a nearby village. Yin Xiu didn't say anything, just followed behind. After a pause, he asked Ma Xinyi, "Senior Sister, do the villagers around here always come directly here?" "What else?" Ma Xinyi asked him back. "I mean, is it possible that after they encountered those strange things, they would first go to the village witches and shamans to worship Datuk Gong and Tudi Gong, and only come here when they had no other choice?" "It's not impossible." Ma Xinyi didn't understand what Yin Xiu meant. "Because generally, unless the matter is particularly difficult, those people are not willing to come to the Ma family for help. They just ask a witch to sing and dance at their home and drink a bowl of magic water. There is no need to ask us for help." Yin Xiu knew that it was not because the price charged by the Ma family for exorcism was high, but because the locals generally felt taboo and worried about having any contact with the Ma family. It is not the case that the more capable a person is, the more people respect him from the bottom of their hearts. Sometimes, people are just afraid of you, not respecting you. This is the situation that the Exorcist Ma family is facing in Malaysia. However, in today's chaotic world, it seems more effective to make people afraid than to respect them. Yin Xiu and Ma Xinyi followed the couple, and after crossing two bridges, they finally arrived at a village. The village looks ordinary, even a little shabby. Perhaps the villagers in this village make a living by catching river fish, so the whole village exudes a faint earthy smell of river fish and mud snails. "Have you been here before?" Yin Xiu asked in a low voice. Ma Xinyi shook her head. "We don't go out very often. If we go out, we go to the town. We don't come to a place like this to play." It was already noon, and the man said embarrassedly: "Two Taoist priests, why don't you have some food here first, and then..."

"I'm not hungry." Ma Xinyi raised her hand to refuse, and said sternly: "It is important to do the business first, where is your daughter?" "This way, Taoist Priest, please." Ma Xinyi's righteous behavior obviously strengthened the confidence of the couple, and they quickly led the way and led them to a woodshed. There were two or three locks on the wooden door of the woodshed, and the door was tied tightly with an iron chain, with densely packed talismans pasted on it. Yin Xiu twitched his nose and smelled a lot of blood, probably dog ​​blood or chicken blood. He couldn't help but frown and asked, "You guys got a lot of people to come and see it?" "Yes." The man said with a sad face, "We invited the local witch, the Dato Gong temple priest, and the priest from another island to come and have a look. We have tried all kinds of methods, but nothing worked. My daughter is still the same." "A few days?" Ma Xinyi covered her nose with her sleeve, with only seriousness on her face. "About half a month." the woman replied. "Half a month?" Ma Xinyi was obviously angry and raised her voice, "Why didn't you come earlier? Half a month could be fatal!" The couple didn't dare to say anything, but just held their hands, not knowing what to do. At this time, the other people in the village probably knew that Yin Xiu and the others were coming, or they saw them at the entrance of the village. They all gathered around, some far away and some near, standing aside and watching. They didn't want to disturb Yin Xiu and the others, but they were even more afraid of disturbing the dirty things in the woodshed. "Let's take a look at the situation inside first." Yin Xiu calmed Ma Xinyi down, and then said to the couple, "Open the door and deal with the problem first." The man quickly took out his keys and frantically opened the locks one by one. Then the man pointed inside the door, and seemed to be quite hesitant as to whether he should go in or not. Yin Xiu glanced at him and finally asked him to move aside. After all, demons and monsters are indeed terrifying beings to ordinary people, even if those haunting them are their loved ones. Ma Xinyi opened her own eyes first, and then handed two pomelo leaves to Yin Xiu. "Here, it's for your self-defense. I think you probably haven't experienced such a big scene before." Yin Xiu smiled and just took the pomelo leaves and rubbed them on his eyes. Seeing that he was cooperating like this, Ma Xinyi stopped admonishing him and just said, "Just follow behind me and help me, or just don't do anything. It's all fine. In short, don't cause trouble for yourself." "Don't worry, Senior Sister. I will follow your lead." Yin Xiu assured her again and again, and Ma Xinyi nodded at him to show that she was relieved. Then Ma Xinyi, who was not as tall as Yin Xiu's chest, walked in front, while Yin Xiu lowered his head and bent over to go into the woodshed.

Then they saw the girl who was possessed. She didn't know when she had broken the ropes on her body. She was now lying on all fours on the ground, looking at Yin Xiu and Ma Xinyi with a sinister smile, and sticky saliva dripping from her mouth. She should have been a girl who was not very pretty but was pretty. But now her face was dirty, her hair was tangled, and she exuded a sour and smelly smell. "When my sister wears her socks for a long time without changing them, they seem to have the same smell." Ma Xinyi frowned. "It's not that exaggerated." Yin Xiu was quite calm, "Your sister is not that exaggerated. After all, it's only her feet that are stuffy, and the person in front of me probably hasn't touched water for half a month." As she spoke, Yin Xiu looked at the victim again. Wisps of black air were emanating from her body and head. This is obviously a typical manifestation of being possessed by evil spirits. Yin Xiu didn't know how many rituals Ma Xinyi had watched, or whether she had really performed one. Anyway, she sat down in a very formal manner and asked the people outside for a bowl of rice and a stick of incense. Ma Xinyi was very calm until she saw a bowl of cooked white rice was brought in. She immediately frowned and asked, "Why not add a chicken leg, a few vegetable leaves, and a spoonful of marinade?" The man was stunned for a moment, then he said: "I'm not well prepared, I'm not well prepared!" Yin Xiu couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and said, holding his forehead, "Get me a bowl of raw rice." "Good good!" Then another bowl of pointed pile of uncooked rice was brought in. Everything was ready. Ma Xinyi lit the sandalwood, inserted it into the bowl, and finally began to communicate with the evil spirit leaning over the girl. "Tell me, why are you possessing someone else for no reason? Humans and ghosts are different. This is not the place you should be." "none of your business!" A shrill, scary sound came out of the girl's mouth, sounding like a male. "What do you mean it's none of my business?" Ma Xinyi was angry. "These villagers asked me to come and deal with you. I am now negotiating with you according to the rules of the underworld. A bowl of rice and a stick of incense are enough to give you face. You'd better be sensible." "What do you know!?" When the girl opened her mouth, saliva dripped onto the ground, making her look hideous and terrifying. "This woman killed me in her previous life and dumped me in a pond in the back mountain, leaving me as a wandering ghost for decades. But she herself is so happy, living a carefree life and even reincarnated. Where is justice?" The ghost's voice was miserable, almost howling, and black tears flowed from his eyes. It turned out that it was the enemies and creditors who came to visit. Although it sounds pitiful, it was a matter of the previous life after all and has nothing to do with this life. According to the ghost, the girl was a boy in her previous life, and now she has become a girl, so it has nothing to do with her.

Even if there is a cycle of cause and effect, that is a matter for the future. We cannot just sit back and watch as ghosts invade the living. So Ma Xinyi also comforted him and said: "This is all from the previous life, and has little to do with this girl. Otherwise, how about I ask them to salvage your remains and build a tomb and a monument for you?" "My body has long been eaten by fish and worms and turned into mud." "How about I ask them to perform some rituals for you so that you can be liberated as soon as possible?" "I do not want!" The girl's hands scratched bloody marks on the ground, "I only want her life!" Yin Xiu frowned, it seemed that the negotiation had completely failed. Ma Xinyi did not delay and immediately turned around and shouted outside: "Bring in a pair of red chopsticks, I'll force this damn devil out!" As soon as he finished speaking, before the people outside could react, the evil spirit possessed by the girl had already pounced over. "You want to deal with me? I'll deal with you first!" A fishy wind blew in her face. Ma Xinyi immediately jumped up from her original cross-legged sitting position on the ground. She did a somersault to avoid the opponent's attack, and then landed on the evil ghost's back with one foot. The evil ghost fell to the ground, kicked up dust, let out a sharp cry, and immediately turned over and attacked Ma Xinyi again. Ma Xinyi used her skills to deal with the evil ghost. After a long while, someone outside handed over the red chopsticks. Ma Xinyi turned around to take the chopsticks, but the evil ghost, who was even taller than her, slapped them away and then grabbed Ma Xinyi's open chest. boom! The evil ghost flew out like a broken sack, knocking over the firewood, smashing the wall, and fell outside the woodshed, landing heavily on the ground. Ma Xinyi was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. If she had been hit on the chest by the evil ghost just now, she would probably have been seriously injured. However, after that moment of fear, she couldn't figure out what had just happened. Looking back at Yin Xiu, Yin Xiu still maintained the same posture as before, as if he was just watching the fight from beginning to end. He did not take any action to kick the evil ghost away more than ten meters. "in the end……" Ma Xinyi was about to ask something, but Yin Xiu pointed outside and said in surprise: "Senior Sister, the evil ghost has left!" Hearing Yin Xiu's reminder and the villagers' exclamations and screams, Ma Xinyi looked over there. I saw the girl lying on the ground, spitting out black water from her mouth, black liquid flowing from her nose and eyes, and she kept coughing. "It's solved. Why don't you give her some magic water to calm her down, Senior Sister?" The dragon and tiger energy on Yin Xiu's feet disappeared silently. (End of this chapter)